We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.

I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.